How color relationships and coordination are applied to art, hair styling, eyes, complexion, dress and home decoration. Narrator: James A. Brill. Educational Collaborator: Eliot O'Hara, N.A.


This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives

Producer: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc.
Sponsor: N/A
Audio/Visual: Sd, C
Keywords: Perception: Color; Art and artists: Technique; Fashion

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: brasofilo - - April 2, 2009
Subject: just color correct it
take the file to a video compositing software, adjust the rgb levels, and there you got: a better looking film about colors
;)

Reviewer: Christine Hennig - - September 6, 2005
Subject: How Too Much Green Makes Everything Else Look Gray
This dry educational film about color mixing and combining has some striking imagery, both abstract and concrete, of the outcomes of combining or juxtaposing various colors together. Unfortunately, the print has washed-out color that emphasizes green in everything. This could increase the camp value of the film, but it doesnt because its just too hard to see the colors. Meat fans will enjoy the brief scene of a huge side of beef, and the 50s makeup scenes are appropriately garish, but even then I think theyd be more enjoyable if the colors were more accurate.
Ratings: Camp/Humor Value: ***. Weirdness: ****. Historical Interest: ****. Overall Rating: ***.

Reviewer: op712 - - May 18, 2003
Subject: Color Keying
Interesting concept of using color management for the home of this era. Unfort,why the green reproduction in this film is that the Eastman color dyes in the age of this film have taken its toll in true color reproduction (one of the disadvantages of Eastman against the Technicolor dye-transfer process - the duration of keeping the colors true when age becomes a factor).

Reviewer: Spuzz - - April 3, 2003
Subject: Add yellow to red to make... green!
In this very odd film, the theme of color is attempted to be explained, yet the condition of the film, as you can tell by the movie scenes, are all green. Making every point seem moot as every color combined with every color will make... green.

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A study of color relationships. Employs abstract demonstrations of color deceptions followed by practical applications. Color relations are applied to art subjects and to aspects of everyday life such as hair, eyes, complexion, dress and home decoration.
Ken Smith sez: If you know nothing about art, fashion or beauty -- like me -- you may find the idea of color keying intriguing. In typical, dull, EBF fashion, Jim Brill first explains to the differences between light primaries (additive) and pigment primaries (subtractive) and the weaknesses of the latter. This leads to color keying: the art of placing "complementary" colors in proximity to one another to create flattering or dramatic effects. Mr. B may be dull but the demonstrations he narrates are very striking; at least this film is interesting to look at.
By the way, "living" as it is defined by this production is the art of facial make-up, dress colors, and interior design, so you can kind of guess which sex this film was targeted toward. "Keyed color contributes contrast and brilliance to many phases of our existence."

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